QQ is my favorite chat client. It lets you copy a screen area and paste the image right into the client. It also lets you send animated emoticons. I may be biased.. http://www.imqq.com/
Looks cool, but from what I read, it's ONLY QQ people. If it was multi-client, then I might try it. But I use Pidgin with the screengrab plugin. Capture a portion and insert into the message, or it can auto upload to an FTP or image hosting site and give the user a link.
its not free but
50$ for excellent high speed no-lag painting software. the painting tool is superb
i can choose for being traditional look or more digital look.
the downside is just this is more exclusive painting/drawing tools not really image editing tool.
Bro wrote a little progie that hangs out in the process background takes screenshots of portions of your screen with alt+~, uploads them to your ftp and copies the link to your clipboard. Great for sharing wip stuff.
3dripper DX from Roman Lut
You can make 3d mesh and texture screenshots from inside your favorite games.
i use it to get insight on how artists at popular studios model their stuff.
i used it in tomb raider underworld, and i was surprised how many meshdetails they used for broken edges in stone structures.
and also how many polys the lara character model has. etc.
there are also some plugins to import the data into max or maya.
Bro wrote a little progie that hangs out in the process background takes screenshots of portions of your screen with alt+~, uploads them to your ftp and copies the link to your clipboard. Great for sharing wip stuff.
Also its pretty fast
Readme inside.
oh this sounds neat,, when i get back to makin stuff i may use this
I need an alternative to Thunderbird. It`s running dog slow and pissing me off. Even on a new install. Might go back to windows mail and just say "eff it".
Lamont: I've actualy heard fairly nice things about Live Mail, part of Microsoft's free Live stuff.
On the other hand, it's also worth considering webmail. I've used only Gmail (with offline mail through Google Gears) for a while now, and I'm not looking back. Being able to check my mail anywhere, having powerful spam-filters (and a powerful system for setting up any sort of filter), labeling, gmail Labs, ...
I just don't miss any part of Thunderbird, to be honest. Ofcourse, you're asking for a desktop program to manage your mail with, so this is all besides the point, I'm just trying to get you to challenge your reasons for needing one.
Lamont: I've actualy heard fairly nice things about Live Mail, part of Microsoft's free Live stuff.
On the other hand, it's also worth considering webmail. I've used only Gmail (with offline mail through Google Gears) for a while now, and I'm not looking back. Being able to check my mail anywhere, having powerful spam-filters (and a powerful system for setting up any sort of filter), labeling, gmail Labs, ...
I just don't miss any part of Thunderbird, to be honest. Ofcourse, you're asking for a desktop program to manage your mail with, so this is all besides the point, I'm just trying to get you to challenge your reasons for needing one.
All of my mail goes through gmail, but I then download to TBird. I have some gross desire to keep every email/IM and have since 2000. I will probably end up back to MS's email app.
XRAY UNWRAP!!!
It's amazing! (Only for max unfortunately) You click where you want your seems in Edit Poly, it makes unwrapping so easy, and generally unwraps everything to scale. I couldn't live without it
Oh, and its not free, but 5 bucks isn't bad at allllllllll
Xray unwrap 1.5 will be available soon by the way. This update will be included in the unwrap modifier, and add powerful tools like auto uv packing and rescaling (according to texel-ratio), according to the demo video. http://www.raylightgames.com/2010/05/sneakpeek-xrayunwrap-15-rc1/
I went to a new mail application called Silpheed. Using imap through gMail and brought in some client emails that I need to go through sometimes. Fast, runs well and does what I need. But it can not filter imap emails to folders. So you have to do that on the gmail end.
Anyone got a program that'll let me copy a files location instantly? I used to have one. It'll be great for sharing files to colleges over our local drives here at work.
A LITTLE late, I know. Was trying to find this thing too.
Bro wrote a little progie that hangs out in the process background takes screenshots of portions of your screen with alt+~, uploads them to your ftp and copies the link to your clipboard. Great for sharing wip stuff.
Also its pretty fast
Readme inside.
How old is this screenshot? It looks like you're not using the proper WYSIWYG editor. Check your options for the advanced version.
This is a very handy program when your trying to find out what is taking up space on your harddrive
it shows you in graphical tree format what your storage looks like and allows you to access the folders with a few clicks
If you like Sequoia view, you'll love WinDirStat. You can use it to find the largest files and delete them to create more space. I use it often to clean up my harddisks.
Microsoft Security Essentials I never thought Microsoft would make one of the better anti-virus apps, free to boot! (I've used Norton, Avast, Nod32, Panda, McAfee and some others before)
Virtual CloneDrive Free virtual drive software. Mount CD/DVD images etc.
Spotify Best digital distribution service for music ever created?
Truecrypt Create encrypted files that can be mounted as virtual drives. Insanely well for protecting your digital work or personal information.
Digsby Multi-instant messenger with Social Media and Email features. It uses a centralized login for all accounts.
Xmplay My favorite music player. Simple, lightweight, similar to how Winamp 2.x was back in the good days.
- .ORG isn't working, try www.xmplay.com instead
- I have to underline how great digsby is! All your accounts & renamed contacts are stored in ONE digsby profile. Means: after a windows reinstall you just need to know you digsby username/pw to have it like before instead of adding all account informations hand by hand.
its free and it tracks right EVERYTHING you do on your computer and puts it in bar graphs.
its easy to overview and handle.
you will track, how long you use your computer, your internetbrowser or any other programm. you even track the time on the sites you visit, or the files you got open in your applications...
very very good app! check it out
I'm putting in Recuva. It gets my vote 100%. I just discovered it yesterday:
Saturday I filled a 4GB CF card with pictures taken of a sports event. While taking pictures I got a Error 99 (canon users know this one). So I pulled the battery and started shooting again. Fast forward to Tuesday and I wanted to copy the files to DVD. I tried to copy and the card would not read. Nothing worked, did not read in the camera either (CF Error). Then I Googled and found this app, and it would not work... at first. The card would not read in the drive, so I figured I'd just format it in the camera. It crashed on format. I put the card in the PC and ran the app and ALL my pictures were there. It recovered all of them and pretty much saved the day. Now it's time for a new CF card.
I haven't used it much yet, but Picturenaut seems to be a useful and free HDR editing app.
There are also a bunch of free filters/plugins available, one of which is the Diffuse SH filter which can do a diffuse convolution of a full sized HDR image nearly instantly.
Someone posted a thread about this the other day and I figured I'd give it a shot.
Its 8gbp as of sat that was about 14.75usd. Its pretty handy, runs smooth, though atm Spyware Doctor and it do not get along, I have to disable spyware doctor for hotkeys to work.
Allows you to do computer events you otherwise couldn't do without user intervention. Quick example. Say your rendering something and want the computer to shutdown after it finishes? You can set the cpu percentage. When it drops below that threshold a timer is started (which you customize) and the puter will shut down and ignore dialog boxes.
I'm having different username (username = Lanzerela) at the welcome greetings on the firstpage (polycount.com). I just realized this today. Usually I will straight away go to polycount forum (the username are correct, username = mziskandar).
I'm having different username (username = Lanzerela) at the welcome greetings on the firstpage (polycount.com). I just realized this today. Usually I will straight away go to polycount forum (the username are correct, username = mziskandar).
Interesting app. Will have to try it out sometime. But you didn't say how much it costs or provide a download link. Is it free?
Clicking the scroll wheel gives access to a list of folders you choose yourself. Also works in other applications like 3ds Max, Photoshop, etc. It's freeware and I find it extremely time-saving!
I love this tool! You can customize your desktop with "apps". For example a box where a textfile is shown and updated when it is changed. I love to use that for logfiles of the games i work on. So i can run the game and see instantly when there are reported error in the log.
Any good difference between the Litestep and this? I've been looking for a third source desktop theme that does not show many icons on the desktop.
*something I do on a very very rare moment when I have time.*
I just picked a random link to prove that it exists. This tool is great at first then it starts slowing your computer down on many levels. (which happened to me 5 years ago)
You are able to switch to your original desktop of windows or litestep.
nitewalkr: Samurise isn't anything like Litestep, actually. It just puts some information on your regular windows desktop, rather than replacing the shell as Litestep does. With things like Litestep I'm always concerned about stability so I avoid them, but samurise seems pretty safe.
Here's a nice little tool that captures your screen straight to GIF: http://www.landoleet.org/licecap/
Very straightforward, you just set the area to capture as well as the framerate and you're good to go.
For those who need a free reference image software, Fast Stone Max View http://www.faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm
do the job very well. It's a powerful image viewer, a lot of functions for free.
I'm a huge fan of Crazybump, (props Ryan!) but when I want to run a gentle detail pass, or keep things generally less "lumpy" without having to mess with settings, I LOVE the NVidia Normal map plugin. It's also extremely useful for normalizing multiple, overlay normal maps merged into a layer.
This is a must have when Zbrusherizificationing. I couldn't live without it. So simple, so genius.
DH Shutdown Tool http://www.medownloads.com/download-DH-Shutdown-38101.htm simple and elegant - Doing a huge render/bake? Wanna leave the house without leaving the computer running all day? Just type a time in the countdown and this tool shuts er down good.
@Adam
This may be trivial knowledge, but if you're using windows seven, any and everything you drag to your quicklaunch is auto-hotkeyed to windowskey+[items order in list].
In other words, if notepad (or a text file) is the 3rd item in your quicklaunch, windowskey+3 will pop it open automatically. I use this with the Windows Snipping Tool on a daily basis to take screenshots of what I'm working on.
No need to install a secondary program that is running 24/7 just to keep notes.
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http://www.imqq.com/
its not free but
50$ for excellent high speed no-lag painting software. the painting tool is superb
i can choose for being traditional look or more digital look.
the downside is just this is more exclusive painting/drawing tools not really image editing tool.
its very wacom friendly too
Bro wrote a little progie that hangs out in the process background takes screenshots of portions of your screen with alt+~, uploads them to your ftp and copies the link to your clipboard. Great for sharing wip stuff.
Also its pretty fast
Readme inside.
You can make 3d mesh and texture screenshots from inside your favorite games.
i use it to get insight on how artists at popular studios model their stuff.
i used it in tomb raider underworld, and i was surprised how many meshdetails they used for broken edges in stone structures.
and also how many polys the lara character model has. etc.
there are also some plugins to import the data into max or maya.
so check it out:
http://www.deep-shadows.com/hax/3DRipperDX.htm#Overview
.....
http://scary-monsters.org/
tried googling for some but only found those ad-driven-file-download-everything-for-free-fake-not-really-hoax-sites.
oh this sounds neat,, when i get back to makin stuff i may use this
On the other hand, it's also worth considering webmail. I've used only Gmail (with offline mail through Google Gears) for a while now, and I'm not looking back. Being able to check my mail anywhere, having powerful spam-filters (and a powerful system for setting up any sort of filter), labeling, gmail Labs, ...
I just don't miss any part of Thunderbird, to be honest. Ofcourse, you're asking for a desktop program to manage your mail with, so this is all besides the point, I'm just trying to get you to challenge your reasons for needing one.
A friend on Facebook shared this the other day.
Set it playing in the background, overlay some classical music and bam! nice work environment.
http://www.raylightgames.com/xrayunwrap/xrayunwrap.htm
XRAY UNWRAP!!!
It's amazing! (Only for max unfortunately) You click where you want your seems in Edit Poly, it makes unwrapping so easy, and generally unwraps everything to scale. I couldn't live without it
Oh, and its not free, but 5 bucks isn't bad at allllllllll
http://www.raylightgames.com/2010/05/sneakpeek-xrayunwrap-15-rc1/
A LITTLE late, I know. Was trying to find this thing too.
PathCopy- http://cownap.com/~mtmg/misc/pathcopy/
How old is this screenshot? It looks like you're not using the proper WYSIWYG editor. Check your options for the advanced version.
If you like Sequoia view, you'll love WinDirStat. You can use it to find the largest files and delete them to create more space. I use it often to clean up my harddisks.
"Install multiple apps at once, without toolbars or clicking Next."
Handy all-round, but superly-so for fresh OS installs.
Digsby Multi-instant messenger with Social Media and Email features. It uses a centralized login for all accounts.
Executor and Launchy The two best command line launchers I know off. I prefer Executor as it has a bit more control.
Media Player Classic : Home Cinema, VideoLAN, VirtualDub and FFDShow Video playback and encode/decode essentials. All free.
Microsoft Security Essentials I never thought Microsoft would make one of the better anti-virus apps, free to boot! (I've used Norton, Avast, Nod32, Panda, McAfee and some others before)
Virtual CloneDrive Free virtual drive software. Mount CD/DVD images etc.
Spotify Best digital distribution service for music ever created?
Truecrypt Create encrypted files that can be mounted as virtual drives. Insanely well for protecting your digital work or personal information.
X-Chat2/Y-chat My favorite windows IRC client.
Xmplay My favorite music player. Simple, lightweight, similar to how Winamp 2.x was back in the good days.
- .ORG isn't working, try www.xmplay.com instead
- I have to underline how great digsby is! All your accounts & renamed contacts are stored in ONE digsby profile. Means: after a windows reinstall you just need to know you digsby username/pw to have it like before instead of adding all account informations hand by hand.
Vector paint app - http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/index.php?lang=en
http://www.manictime.com/
its free and it tracks right EVERYTHING you do on your computer and puts it in bar graphs.
its easy to overview and handle.
you will track, how long you use your computer, your internetbrowser or any other programm. you even track the time on the sites you visit, or the files you got open in your applications...
very very good app! check it out
Saturday I filled a 4GB CF card with pictures taken of a sports event. While taking pictures I got a Error 99 (canon users know this one). So I pulled the battery and started shooting again. Fast forward to Tuesday and I wanted to copy the files to DVD. I tried to copy and the card would not read. Nothing worked, did not read in the camera either (CF Error). Then I Googled and found this app, and it would not work... at first. The card would not read in the drive, so I figured I'd just format it in the camera. It crashed on format. I put the card in the PC and ran the app and ALL my pictures were there. It recovered all of them and pretty much saved the day. Now it's time for a new CF card.
There are also a bunch of free filters/plugins available, one of which is the Diffuse SH filter which can do a diffuse convolution of a full sized HDR image nearly instantly.
Its a really useful desktop add-on. I'm gonna try Samurize, but this is what I use now
ARTRage3 pro free with ImagineFX sub's
Been thinking about subscribing for a while. think I will now.
UK, Europe and Rest of the World: http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/ifx311/
US and Canada: http://www.imsnews.com/home.php?page=magPage&pubid=4909
Someone posted a thread about this the other day and I figured I'd give it a shot.
Its 8gbp as of sat that was about 14.75usd. Its pretty handy, runs smooth, though atm Spyware Doctor and it do not get along, I have to disable spyware doctor for hotkeys to work.
Then checkout these free Google Sketchup scripts.
http://www.den4b.com/?x=products&product=shutter
Allows you to do computer events you otherwise couldn't do without user intervention. Quick example. Say your rendering something and want the computer to shutdown after it finishes? You can set the cpu percentage. When it drops below that threshold a timer is started (which you customize) and the puter will shut down and ignore dialog boxes.
Whole bunch of other options you can do as well.
I'm having different username (username = Lanzerela) at the welcome greetings on the firstpage (polycount.com). I just realized this today. Usually I will straight away go to polycount forum (the username are correct, username = mziskandar).
Clicking the scroll wheel gives access to a list of folders you choose yourself. Also works in other applications like 3ds Max, Photoshop, etc. It's freeware and I find it extremely time-saving!
Winamp (kicks the shit out of iTunes, if you don't mind occasional bugs)
Blender (great for plugging little holes in my workflow)
Linux Mint (I use this on my Netbook because it's pretty light, but very feature rich. I also use it to diagnose my PC everytime windows dies
Lightworks (non-linear video sequence editor, honestly haven't used it, but it looks really good and it's been used in industry for 20+ years)
FireFTP (super light and easy FF plugin)
*something I do on a very very rare moment when I have time.*
Also doesnt this make your computer run slow?
http://www.ls-themes.org/screenshots/first-attempt-at-a-theme
I just picked a random link to prove that it exists. This tool is great at first then it starts slowing your computer down on many levels. (which happened to me 5 years ago)
You are able to switch to your original desktop of windows or litestep.
Here's a nice little tool that captures your screen straight to GIF:
http://www.landoleet.org/licecap/
Very straightforward, you just set the area to capture as well as the framerate and you're good to go.
http://www.faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm
do the job very well. It's a powerful image viewer, a lot of functions for free.
Take a look o look on Fast Stone Image Viewer too:
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
It's an excellent image browser, for free.
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It appears to be able to export meshes, heightmaps, and textures.
Requires Python 2.6 - 32bit, and a relatively beefy GPU. Looks like it runs on Windows, Linux, and possibly even Mac...
http://ninite.com/
NVIDIA Normal map and Mipster Generator Plugins:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html
I'm a huge fan of Crazybump, (props Ryan!) but when I want to run a gentle detail pass, or keep things generally less "lumpy" without having to mess with settings, I LOVE the NVidia Normal map plugin. It's also extremely useful for normalizing multiple, overlay normal maps merged into a layer.
Damian Standard Brush for Zbrush
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=90419
This is a must have when Zbrusherizificationing. I couldn't live without it. So simple, so genius.
DH Shutdown Tool
http://www.medownloads.com/download-DH-Shutdown-38101.htm
simple and elegant - Doing a huge render/bake? Wanna leave the house without leaving the computer running all day? Just type a time in the countdown and this tool shuts er down good.
@Adam
This may be trivial knowledge, but if you're using windows seven, any and everything you drag to your quicklaunch is auto-hotkeyed to windowskey+[items order in list].
In other words, if notepad (or a text file) is the 3rd item in your quicklaunch, windowskey+3 will pop it open automatically. I use this with the Windows Snipping Tool on a daily basis to take screenshots of what I'm working on.
No need to install a secondary program that is running 24/7 just to keep notes.
The DamStandard brush is actually included in the more recent versions of ZBrush (3.5r3, 4, etc) but it is located in the Lightbox under Brushes.